“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

“Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.”

“Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful.”

“Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.”

“That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.”

“The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guaranteesthat. The only force capable of undermining it isgovernment.”